Miguel Street

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Miguel Street is a 1959 collection of interconnected short stories by V. S. Naipaul that portrays the lives of colorful characters in a fictionalized neighborhood of Port of Spain, Trinidad.

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instanceOf book
short story collection
adaptationBroadcaster BBC NERFINISHED
adaptationCountry United Kingdom NERFINISHED
adaptationType television film
adaptationYear 1990
author V. S. Naipaul NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Trinidad and Tobago NERFINISHED
depicts colonial society in the British West Indies
urban lower-middle-class life in Trinidad
genre fiction
short stories
hasAdaptation Miguel Street (television film) NERFINISHED
hasCharacter B. Wordsworth NERFINISHED
Bhakcu NERFINISHED
Bogart NERFINISHED
Eddoes NERFINISHED
Edward NERFINISHED
Elias NERFINISHED
George NERFINISHED
Hat NERFINISHED
Laura NERFINISHED
Man-man NERFINISHED
Mrs. Hereira NERFINISHED
Popo NERFINISHED
Titus Hoyt NERFINISHED
Uncle Bhakcu NERFINISHED
hasTheme colonial identity
community life
failure and aspiration
humor and pathos
masculinity
poverty
violence
language English
literaryMovement postcolonial literature
narrativeForm interconnected short stories
narrator unnamed boy narrator
notableFor early example of Naipaul’s Caribbean fiction
portrayal of Trinidadian Creole culture
originallyPublishedIn United Kingdom NERFINISHED
partOfAuthorCareerPhase Naipaul’s early Trinidad works
publicationYear 1959
publisher Andre Deutsch NERFINISHED
settingCountry Trinidad and Tobago NERFINISHED
settingLocation Port of Spain NERFINISHED
structure linked stories centered on residents of one street
titleRefersTo fictional street in Port of Spain

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V. S. Naipaul notableWork Miguel Street